Learn From History

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Townhall:

Michael Reagan

May 09, 2013

 

History is one of our greatest teachers.

 

It's just too bad so many of our young people think history started with the death of Princess Di or the birth of the iPhone.

 

I was painfully reminded of America’s historical illiteracy and the failure of our educational system last week while golfing with a few strangers in Burbank, Calif.

One of the young men in my foursome was about 30 and ran a restaurant in Los Angeles.

When I told him in passing that I was going to be flying to Normandy, France, the next morning to raise a flag at an American cemetery there, his awful education betrayed him.

 

“Why would there be an American cemetery at Normandy?” he asked.

I thought he was kidding me, but he wasn’t.

 

(Snip)

 

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I really wish I could say this surprises me.....alas...I can't.